Motorola Mobility's launched its first Intel-based smartphone today and I've been playing with it ahead of its release this October.
The compact beauty - which continues with the company's Kevlar-backed design - features a 4.3in 'edge-to-edge' OLED display and it's easy to see why this is one of the Razr i's major talking …

Re: 20 Hrs of use.

20 hours of full-on use would be amazingly good.

20 hours of standby would be shockingly bad.

It must be somewhere in the middle.

Wait for a full review or bench mark.

But yeah, you raise a good point- cars have two bench marks for their fuel consumption, Urban and Highway, presumably on a rolling road at a defined temperature. The closest phones get is "we looped a 720p movie on it, wi-fi on, screen at half brightness til it died" though half bright on one handset might equate to full brightness on another.

Thrice shy unfortunately

It's a lovely looking phone and the strength of the case and screen would make it an ideal present for those clumsier people on my birthday list. But it is a Motorola phone so the chances of getting timely software updates in the near future and any whatsoever after a year or so are remote. I bought the original Milestone, got sick of waiting for Android updates. Bought a Xoom, turned out the Google Experience was only felt within God's own country and have never seen as much frustration on any technology subject as that expressed in the Motorola forums.

Even if it had a virtual keyboard and holographic display like the fanboi's iPhone that fooled Fox 5 in New York the name Motorola on the phone will ultimately end in tears.

Meh.

Intel based, so there are huger swathes of apps that won't run because they use native compiled code.

It's also lower spec than a £300 Xperia S, that has a better camera, better low light performance, better display, and a dedicated camera button too (not that it ever got mentioned.. until a review needed to find a selling point).

Re: Meh.

"Intel based, so there are huger swathes of apps that won't run because they use native compiled code.

If its anything like the Huuuwaeieieiei G300, also an Atom powered phone, it will still run all apps. Those apps that hit the hardware, expecting ARM chippery, will actually be talking to an emulation layer, provided by Intel, and therefore be none the wiser. No doubt Intel will release an NDK of their own in time so apps can be re-written to hit the Atoms innards directly. It will be a pain in the arse for app developers, who's apps need the extra grunt of talking directly to the hardware, having to develop for two platforms but for consumers it shouldn't make (too) much of a difference. Well, that's the theory anyway.

You don't seriously think Intel would by trying to make inroads with an x86 chip, into what was an exclusively ARM market, without thinking about this do you?

Re: Meh.

Oops, my mistake on the manufacturer/model of the other Atom powered smartphone. Thanks for the correction. The phone I'm thinking of was actually reviewed on here not so long ago but if its not the G300, and obviously it isn't, then I can't for the life of me remember what it actually is (and can't be bothered to look! lol)